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The adoption institute with foreign participation is becoming more and more widespread in the application practice, engendering some contradictions between the norms and the concepts of the national states in the course of the international adoption regulation. The novelty and urgency of this legal phenomenon are connected with the society's aspiration to protect the interests of the child, left without parental support, by bringing in the resources of other states. However, the states, passing over their children to be brought up by foreign citizens, find themselves in a strategically difficult demographic situation.